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Engineering Flashcards

1
Q

two main types of project management

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waterfall and agile

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2
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what is very important for ant project?

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planning

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3
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failure to plan is planning to?

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fail

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4
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What is one of the most important attributes of successful teams and projects?

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a good plan

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5
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What does project quality mean?

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meeting the project scope while managing time and cost

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6
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What do effective teams need to do?

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work towards a common and understood goal

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7
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Traditional leadership

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one leader who directs subordinates

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8
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Participative leadership

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leader is closer to workers, members of team provide input and feedback- common in modern engineering firms

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9
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tasks that meet?

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the experience of team members

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10
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who is the project manager?

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the designated leader

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11
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what does the project manager do?

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monitor progress of work and track movement towards milestones, manage resources and people working towards goals, and help solve problems, communication issues, and facilitate discussion

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12
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Waterfall?

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teams think of their projects as a sequential process

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13
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Step 1

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Initiating

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14
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2

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Planning/Design

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15
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3

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Implementation/development

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16
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4

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Verification/ testing

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17
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5

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Maintaining

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18
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6

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Closing

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19
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initiating

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clients determine whether the project is a good idea or not and its benefits, project charters are used at this stage

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20
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Planning/design

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plan out project process- Work breakdown structure, milestones (SMART)

21
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What should the WBS be?

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mutually exclusive and completely exhaustive

22
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What do network diagrams show?

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The interdependencies between tasks

23
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Gantt charts

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timeline of tasks and progress

24
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Implementation and development

A

executing the plan

25
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verification and testing

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testing product and launching project

26
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Maintaining/Controlling

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fix things that don’t work, train customers

27
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Closing

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handing over or stopping the work, releasing resources

28
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What type of a chart is a gantt chart

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horizontal bar charts

29
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how are dependencies showed in the gantt chart?

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by arrows

30
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what is understood through a gantt chart?

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delivery time, how many people/ which people used for tasks

31
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What is needed to create a gantt chart

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Work Breakdown Structure

32
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What can color be used for in gantt

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people/types of people doing the task as well as progress towards completing the task

33
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Types of dependencies

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FS, SS, FF, SF

34
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Network diagrams

A

logical relationships between project activities

35
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Two main types of network diagrams

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arrow diagrams and precedence diagrams

36
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What dependencies do AoA diagrams show?

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FS dependencies

37
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precedence diagrams are also?

A

activity on node diagrams

38
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critical path

A

longest path through the network diagram

39
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free float

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ES of next activity- EF of current activity

40
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total float

A

LF- EF

41
Q

Milestones have a duration of

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zero

42
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agile has customer?

A

involvement

43
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sprints??

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short cycles in which feedback is given following them

44
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SCRUM is used in?

A

agile

45
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Kanban is used in?

A

agile

46
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agile vs waterfall?

A

shorter development cycles and more frequent product releases

47
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agile isn’t good for?

A

small development projects

48
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what is agile focused on?

A

individuals and interactions, getting a working product

49
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effort

A

duration of the project

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